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It’s Day 1 of the trial in the Lac-Mégantic train derailment that killed 47 folks and destroyed a lot of small Quebec city on July 6, 2013.

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It occurred at 1:15 a.m. when a runaway train with 72 oil tankers — owned and operated by the now bankrupt railway firm Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA) — barrelled into the city at over 100 km/h.

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The trial can be happening in Sherbrooke, Que., about an hour and a half away from Lac-Mégantic.

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Former Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd. workers Tom Harding, proper, Jean Demaitre, centre, and Richard Labrie are escorted by police to seem in court docket in Lac-Megantic, Que., on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The trial for the three men is ready to start on Monday in Sherbrooke.

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The Crown is anticipated to argue that the workers working that evening prompted the train derailment and explosion as solely seven handbrakes had been utilized when it ought to have been round 20.

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The locomotive, and subsequently the air breaks, had been then shut down after a small hearth on the train, inflicting the air to bleed off.